Open AccessThe ground trembling under our feet : truth, politics and solitude.
Author(s) -
Mirko Alagna
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
soft power, revista euro-americana de teoría e historia de la política/soft power
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2539-2239
pISSN - 2389-8232
DOI - 10.14718/softpower.2019.6.2.7
Subject(s) - politics , loneliness , solitude , subjectivism , fake news , aesthetics , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , law , political science , sociology , social psychology , media studies , psychotherapist
Fake news, Post-Truth are now entries into the ordinary language of contemporary politics to denote - with anxiety and concern - the definitive rupture of the relationship between truth and politics. A relationship that has never been idyllic and that cannot be, constitutively, idyllic, but which now seems to have reached a point of no return. Glossing the reflections of Hannah Arendt in Truth and Politics and pointing out two areas of “political licence” - that is, two areas where, inevitably, politics cannot be judged on parameters of truth - this contribution aims to treat the weakness of shared truths not as a cause of the crisis of democracies, but as a symptom of a more radical problem, an extreme subjectivism that leads to loneliness and intolerance towards any relationship based on trust.